The 3rd Workshop on Reversible Computation will take place on July 4th and 5th 2011 in Gent.

The City of Gent was founded about 1,000 years ago at the confluence of two rivers: the Schelde and the Leie. Here was born, in 1500, Keizer Karel, count of Flanders, duke of Burgundy, king of Spain, archduke of Austria, emperor of Germany, and many more. Here was signed the Peace Treaty of 1814, ending the war between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Here took refuge Louis XVIII, king of France, when he run away from Napoleon in 1815.

The city has a unique mixture of industry, trade, culture and education, that ensures a metropolitan city experience, which can rival York and Bremen, the previous host cities of the Reversible Computation workshops. The Graslei on the River Leie, the Castle of the Counts of Flanders, and the Saint Bavo Cathedral attract most of the tourists. The more profound lovers of culture can enjoy the many museums, like the Museum of Fine Arts, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Design. People who love history should visit the brand new City Museum or the Museum of Industrial Archeology and Textile. The more science oriented workshop participants may enjoy the small Science Museum.

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Universiteit Gent

The Universiteit Gent was founded in 1817, by Willem I, king of the Netherlands. Today it is host to more than 32,000 students, studying at 11 different faculties, ranging from humanities like philosophy, literature, and law to pure and applied sciences. The university buildings are scattered, both within and without the city centre. Over the years, eminent scientists such as Joseph Plateau (physicist, pioneer of motion pictures and expert of foams), Leo Baekeland (inventor of Bakelite), and Corneel Heymans (Nobel Prize winner in medicine) studied and worked at UGent. Today, the university is well-known for biotechnology and photonics.

The faculty of engineering (2,800 students) hosts the department of electronics and information systems, organizer of the workshop.

Traveling

Gent has no airport. However, the (very big) Brussels Airport is very well connected to Gent by train. Workshop participants arriving by air at the "Capital of Europe" are advised to take the elevator to the small railway station "Brussels National Airport", in the basement of the airport. There they buy a 11.30 Euro ticket for a trip to the railway station "Gent Sint Pieters". There are trains about every half an hour. The journey lasts about one hour.

Workshop participants arriving in the "Capital of Europe" by train (e.g. the French fast train T.G.V. or the German fast train I.C.E.) will probably arrive in railway station Brussels South. Be careful: in the complicated Belgian language system, this station is called either "Brussel Zuid" or "Bruxelles Midi". There, they buy an 8.10 Euro ticket for a trip to the railway station "Gent Sint Pieters". There are trains about every quarter of an hour. The journey lasts about forty minutes.

More information on that is available on this page.

The railway station "Gent Sint Pieters" is NOT in the city centre, but is located at the south border of town. To reach the centre, please take tramline 1. More information on how to reach the workshop venue is available at this page.